Tag: Islam

For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. In Kandahar, population about 500,000, and other towns, dance parties are a popular, often weekly, pastime. Young boys dress up as girls, wearing makeup and bells on their feet, and dance for a dozen or more leering middle-aged men who throw money at them and then take them home. A recent State Department report called “dancing boys” a “widespread, culturally sanctioned form of male rape.”

Sociologists and anthropologists say the problem results from perverse interpretation of Islamic law.

It’s irrelevant whether Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim — as long as he governs like he’s neither.

Book review of “The Tenth Parallel”, by Eliza Griswold, about the bloody borderlands where Islam and Christianity collide.

Sam Harris speaks with Patt Morrison and Reza Aslan about the Ground Zero Mosque and the problem of Islam.

Americans are becoming more vocal about opposing new mosques in their neighborhoods… and more honest about their reasons.

With Pakistan’s government not responding effectively to catastrophic flooding, hard-line Islamic charities have provided relief with a grass-roots efficiency that is earning them new support among Pakistan’s masses.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims the promotion and teaching of the artform is not compatible with country’s sacred regime.

In a reality show in Malaysia, the grand prize is to become an imam.

Two bombers, one in women’s clothing, attacked outside a mosque in southeastern Iran, killing at least 26 people.

A young Muslim, who had been investigated by his employers at Male International Airport in the Maldives for apostasy, was found hanged from the airport’s control tower yesterday.

The former Elizabeth Arden account analyst testifies to being a “Muslim soldier” intent upon punishing the West for attacking “Muslim lands.”

Pat Condell tells Americans why they should stop the planned building of a Mosque at Ground Zero.

In Pakistan, gunmen attacked two mosques of a Muslim sect.

France’s proposed ban on the burqa infringes on Muslim women’s rights.

The Dalai Lama offers a profoundly simple-minded or highly disingenuous assessment of the world’s religious landscape.

The eruption of the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, was punishment from Allah.

RevolutionMuslim.com posted a warning following the 200th episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ‘South Park,’ which included a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad disguised in a bear suit.

A debate among Christians about whether it’s ok to quote the Koran in trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.

Seemingly normal Pennsylvania woman turns into a radical jihadist after turning to Islam.

Christopher Hitchens detects extortion in an attempt to sue Danish newspapers on behalf of 95,000 descendants of Muhammad.